NEXT LEVEL: Nights After Dreams
Summary: (M) The silver medal was hard fought and won, but now the stakes are higher than ever. Five gold medals loom on the horizon, but more importantly, the “life and love” within the gold rings. Yuri and Viktor’s relationship grows as they get back on the competition road, and new complications rise with them. (Proper follow-up to the TV series; not AU, no crack ships, no weird shit.)
Summary: (E) To say Yuuri was not doing well felt like a massive understatement. He was out of his mind, all of the time. No, that’s not right. He wished he could be out of his mind. Instead he was trapped in his head, his thoughts racing. Different variations of the same old themes: You aren’t good enough. You’ll never be good enough. Everyone who has ever told you you’re good enough is lying to you out of pity….I don’t want to do this, he thought. I don’t want to do this. Please, I can’t do this. I can’t take anymore shame, anymore embarrassment. I can’t take anymore failure. Please. Please….There was no way back from something like this….All he knew was that he couldn’t remember a time where he’d ever felt this free.
Or, the one where Yuuri walks off the ice.
Until My Feet Bleed and My Heart Aches
Summary: (E) ‘…Of all the rivalries in the world of sports over the years, perhaps none has become so legendary as that of Russian figure skater Viktor Nikiforov and his rival, Japanese Yuuri Katsuki…’ A single event changes the course of Yuuri’s life, throwing him into a bitter rivalry with Viktor Nikiforov that spans across his entire skating career. But as the years go on, rivalry and hatred begin to develop into something very different and Yuuri doesn’t seem to be able to stay away, no matter how hard he tries.
Hatred and love are two sides of the same coin and even though everything changes, some things are still meant to be.
Of Bright Stars and Burning Hearts
Summary: (E) Viktor doesn’t remember the first time he met Yuuri Katsuki. This however, is what Viktor does remember…
Part 2 of the Rivals series and companion fic to ‘Until My Feet Bleed and My Heart Aches’. One small change alters the course of both Viktor and Yuuri’s entire lives, creating a rivalry that spans across many years and a world where they both tell a very different side to the story.
Rivals - Past, Present and Future
Summary: (E) A one-shot collection set in the Rivals universe, featuring snippets of Yuuri and Viktor’s life in the future, missing scenes from the previous fics, alternate POVs and more
Summary: (T+) It’s not that Yuuri blames Celestino, though. That’s really not it. He knows what Celestino’s feelings and intentions were – he’s not just a coach to Yuuri, after all, but also a friend. He worries, looks out for Yuuri, and tries to bring him out of the shell he always retreats to when things don’t go his way. If anything, it was Yuuri’s mistake. He knows how he is with alcohol. He should’ve known better. But. What’s done is done. The only thing he can do now is damage control.
If only he can find the damage, that is.
[or, in which yuuri remembers the banquet happenings]
Bear Your Soul on the Ice
by SassySalchow (diedraechin)
Summary:(M) At age fourteen, Katsuki Yuuri had been determined to be Japan's next great figure skating hope, but with no coach that would never happen, so his ballet instructor packs him up off to Russia to train with Yakov Feltsman. The Yakov Feltsman, otherwise known as the coach to rising figure skating star -- and Yuuri's idol -- Viktor Nikiforov.
Summary:(E) Yuuri wakes up in Victor’s room the night after the Sochi Grand Prix Final banquet. Did they sleep together? No. Instead, last night, Drunk Yuuri taunted Victor that he hadn’t earned the right to get in his pants…and spelled out exactly what Victor would have to do to get there.
Now, Victor intends to do everything on that list…
Summary:(M) Returning home on the tail end of an injury that ends his dancing career, Yuri Katsuki is trying to find his future again. As a Five, he knows his options are limited, but when he finds an invitation to Crown Prince Victor Nikiforov’s Selection, he is convinced by a friend to apply.
He never thought he’d be Selected.
When he is, he finds that his world is changed forever, and that the Crown Prince is not exactly what he’d expected.
empty spaces between stars
Summary:(E) Victor gets just as drunk as Yuuri at the Sochi Banquet, and they disappear together after the dance-offs. They wake up the morning after with rings on their fingers, and pictures of them kissing after getting married the night before are all over the tabloids... but neither of them remembers a thing. They decide to stay married for a while for the sake of Victor's sponsorships, and in exchange, Victor coaches Yuuri through nationals...
Summary:(E) Yuuri dies in a tragic accident – and wakes two years in the past. He can’t go back home. He has to decide whether he wants to live it all over again: Sochi, the Grand Prix Final, Viktor…
Viktor, who doesn’t know him.
Summary: When Yuuri looked down at the phone he’d rescued from the bedside table—the model practically prehistoric and enclosed in a scratched poodle covered case he hadn’t seen since the expletive-filled aftermath of Yuri Plisetsky phone-throwing incident #6—and added the bright “...2015” blaring at him from the screen to the cramped lonely single bed he woke up in and the mosaic of Victor—oh god, Victor—posters on the dirty walls, he barrelled headfirst straight through confusion, careened through every possible stage of panic like a champion sprinter in the anxiety Olympics, and landed in that uncanny state of calm that can only prelude a record shattering skate or life shattering recklessness.
Considering that his life had apparently already been shattered—because somehow it was 2015 again and he’s in his old apartment in Detroit and Victor isn’t here why isn’t he here oh my god what if he doesn’t remember me—he was hoping for the former.
Yuuri wakes up five years in the past, before the Grand Prix series that led him to Sochi--and to Victor.
Fortunately, he's not the only one.
Hold on to your plushies, skate fans, because this season's about to get interesting.
